Hershey Fonts now 50 years old

[Al Kossow]

Max Mathews produced a set of three fonts at Bell Labs in 1967 as well.
"Three Fonts of Computer-drawn Letters"
The Journal of Typographic Research pp 345-356

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/visiblelanguage/pdf/V1N4_1967_E.pdf

which we have in the collection
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102675897

I read the cards about a month ago, I'll check when the data is going to be made available

On 5/11/17 3:53 AM, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk wrote:
> I grew up with X-Y scope displays, their associated electrostatic printers, and Calcomp pen plotters. To draw letters and symbols on these, we used Fortran libraries driven by data tables to make "Hershey Characters".
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